Sven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. "This is a ...

Capitalism is often treated as a timeless backdrop to modern life, a system that simply emerged in Europe and then swept the globe by force of inevitability. A new global history by Harvard historian ...

Economic collapse shattered Germany in the 1930s, allowing fascism to rise from the wreckage. Amid national humiliation and mass unemployment, Hitler exploited the public fear, redirected economic ...

It’s unlikely that reading a book—or reading at all, let alone an infinite scroll or hardback doorstopper—will ever be a popular way to ring in a new year. But 2025 gave us a tome worthy of such ...

In September, 1639, John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded in his journal a dreadful tale of Puritan true crime. One Robert Keayne had prospered as a London merchant ...

Why capitalism remains America’s greatest competitive advantage, how science and markets fueled prosperity, and why the ...

Ohio State Department of History professor Bartow Elmore has no problem tackling the environmental impact of major corporations. Elmore’s third book, “Country Capitalism” became available Tuesday and ...

Introduction. Slavery's capitalism / Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman -- Part 1. Plantation technologies. Toward a political economy of slave labor : hands, whipping-machines, and modern power / Edward E ...

In today’s ever-evolving world, the quest for economic progress and individual upward mobility lies at the heart of human aspiration. Amid diverse political ideologies and varying paths to prosperity, ...

Introduction -- Book one: The age of commerce, 1660-1860. Preface: Commerce ; Mercantilism ; Organic economy, household economy ; Republican political economy ; Capitalism and the democracy ; ...

High school teachers say that teaching capitalism has become increasingly politicized, with students drawn to figures like ...

A Colorado history teacher who introduced a resolution that sought to "dismantle capitalism and replace it with a new, equitable economic system" on Tuesday announced a bid to win a seat in the ...